Posts by nagromme

The current 8" Mini has 36% more screen area and a full 42% longer battery life than the 7" Nexus. It also has an actual metal shell. And yet the plastic Nexus 7 is 30% larger by volume (46% thicker!) and 10% heavier. Now add higher...

These recent job changes/re-organizations at Google, would--if they happened at Apple--have the media fighting over who gets to keep the chairs when the company shuts down next month!

Not interested in this specifically, but it does remind me to wish for multiple user accounts (in some simple form) on iOS--especially iPad, but work vs. home on iPhone would be nice usage as well. Whenever you made a new user account...

"Apple needs to come up with some new feature of their own, rather than trying to badmouth their competition-" I think you mean Samsung there As for "keeping up", how about Samsing keeping up with OS updates? Because even if Samsing...

Quote: Originally Posted by unother  Agreed about Reader but it's obvious that RSS is fading from importance. I did start feeling antiquated for using it a few months ago. Guess it's time to look fir something...

Great--the Google service I use the most is now being killed off! Apple: put RSS back in Safari, please, with iCloud synching. A good reminder to use services that have an actual business model--even if they cost money. I won't be...

You can already disable IAP, among other parental controls, but you probably don't even need to.... just don't give your kid a password that can take money from your credit card account! You need a password for IAP currently. Even if...

Yet again, Apple blatantly copies what Samsung was already going to do in future.

Meanwhile there's a HUGE security hole on iOS that remains unpatched: With a little simple social engineering, an attacker can persuade a user to turn off their passcode, mail the attacker their phone and house key, tell the attacker...

Still not Universal?!?